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Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).
[1] Lamb himself is the Elia of the collection, and his sister Mary is "Cousin Bridget." Charles first used the pseudonym Elia for an essay on the South Sea House, where he had worked decades earlier; Elia was the last name of an Italian man who worked there at the same time as Charles, and after that essay the name stuck.
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
Lamb's main correspondents were the poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, Thomas Hood, Bernard Barton, Mary Matilda Betham and Bryan Procter; the philosopher and novelist William Godwin; the music critic William Ayrton; the publishers Edward Moxon, William Hone, Charles Ollier, Charles Cowden Clarke and J. A. Hessey; the statistician John Rickman; the actress Fanny ...
Elia is a name which may be a variant of the names Elias, Elijah, Eli or Eliahu, and may refer to: People ... Elia, a pen-name of Charles Lamb; Given name
King Charles III was confirmed as monarch during a ceremony at St James’s Palace. ... he gestured for an ornate pen holder to be taken away by an aide. Later it was back in place, after privy ...
The Charles Lamb Society (CLS) celebrates and contributes to scholarship on the life and work of Charles Lamb (1775-1834) and Mary Lamb (1764-1847). Charles Lamb was an English essayist and poet whose literary circle included important figures in Romanticism such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, and Dorothy Wordsworth.
King Charles III told aides “I can’t bear this bloody thing” after a pen he was using appeared to leak. The King was at the royal residence of Hillsborough Castle in Co Down in Northern ...